Hospitality & Retail

Hospitality-related businesses are a core industry for HunterMaclean, which has offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island.

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Hospitality-related businesses are a core industry for HunterMaclean, which has offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island. Whether hotel companies or restaurants, retail or wholesale companies, HunterMaclean has significant experience guiding our hospitality clients through legal aspects including real estate, zoning, employment, tax, and litigation matters. We handle restructurings, workouts, complex financing, as well as leasing arrangements.

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Representing the Westin Savannah Harbor Resort and the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center on Hutchinson Island, just across the river from historic downtown Savannah. Over a twelve year period, we handled land acquisition, environmental permitting, zoning and land use issues, governmental relations including the annexation of the property into the City of Savannah, negotiation of a contract with the City that enabled irrigation of the golf course on the island with treated effluent, and formation of a public-private partnership that developed the infrastructure for the island, resulting in a combined investment of over $200 million.

Representing numerous national and regional hotel, motel, and restaurant operators before the City of Savannah and the Historic Review Board.

Counsel to regional convenience store in the re-zoning of development sites, site plan approval to allow for digital signage, halide lighting, as well as overall site development.

Successfully represented national retail client in copyright infringement claims over fabric patterns.

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July 18, 2024

By Shawn Kachmar, Brian Sopp & Robert Hurst, as published by Chambers USA Shawn Kachmar Brian Sopp Robert Hurst Background and Business Environment The State of Georgia is located in…

FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Faces Legal Roadblock

July 10, 2024

By Matthew Wilmot, Edgar Bueno, T. Mills Fleming, Tom Cullen, Brad Harmon, & Shawn Kachmar On July 3, a federal judge in Texas granted a preliminary injunction halting the Federal…

Publicly Available Does Not Mean Public Domain: Why You Cannot Freely Copy Everything on The Internet

February 21, 2024

By Rachel Young Fields, as published by TheNewswire.com The start of a new year often brings discussion of the “public domain,” because in the United States on January 1 (or…